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Death becomes you --- and your loved ones

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Muslim congressmember's dual-loyalty smear demonstrates why American Jews, who are the real target of the BDS movement, need to speak up

Passionate Parenting
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With a house full of kids, every day is a series of desperate times, some more desperate than others --- but always calling for desperate measures

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Congress and Trump may actually take action in 2019 to lower drug prices
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The Trump administration's actions have won some grudging respect from Dems

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Our car critic drove dozens. A few found their way to the bottom

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
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Mumbai sandwich is a balance of crunch, heat and juiciness

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On this day in . . .

• 1349, the Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death, is rounded up and incinerated. It has been conclusively proven via analysis of ancient DNA from plague victims in northern and southern Europe that the pathogen responsible is the Yersinia pestis bacteria.

• 1768, in London, Philip Astley stages the first modern circus

• 1793, Frenchman Jean Pierre Blanchard, using a hot-air balloon, flew between Philadelphia and Woodbury, N.J.

• 1839, the French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process

• 1861, the "Star of the West" incident occurs near Charleston, South Carolina. It is considered by some historians to be the "First Shots of the American Civil War"

• 1894, New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts

• 1905, according to the Julian calendar which is used at the time, Russian workers stage a march on the Winter Palace that ends in the massacre by Czarist troops known as Bloody Sunday, setting off the Revolution of 1905

• 1951, United Nations headquarters in New York was officially opened

• 1968, the Surveyor 7 space probe made a soft landing on the moon, marking the end of the American series of unmanned explorations of the lunar surface

• 1991, representatives from the United States and Iraq meet at the Geneva Peace Conference to try and find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait

• 1995, in New York, the trial of Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and 11 other defendants accused of conspiring to wage holy war against the United States began. (All the defendants were convicted of seditious conspiracy, except for two who reached plea agreements with the government.)

• 2002, two practitioners of that "religion of peace" stormed an Israeli army post near the Gaza Strip, killing four soldiers before being shot dead in a gun battle

• 2008, President W. Bush began a trip to the Middle East, including his first visit as president to Israel. After meeting with Palestinian leaders, Bush called for an end to Israeli "occupation that began in 1967."

• 2009, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was impeached on abuse of power charges, including accusations that he tried to sell U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat. The vote was 114-1

• 2011, North Korean officials urged South Korea to return to talks aimed at easing military tension between the countries and overcoming "distrust and confrontation."

• 2012, military experts said a buildup of Western naval forces in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea was a reaction to Iran's threat to close the Strait of Hormuz. U.S., Russian, French and British air and naval forces moved to the Syrian and Iranian coasts

• 2014, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie fired one of his top aides, Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Anne Kelly, and apologized repeatedly for his staff's "stupid" behavior, insisting during a news conference that he had no idea anyone around him had engineered traffic jams as part of a political vendetta against a Democratic mayor. AND: A chemical plant spill into West Virginia's Elk River contaminated the water supply for Charleston, forcing more than 300,000 water customers in nine counties to stop using tap water.

• 2016, French Jewish leaders and the nation's prime minister, Manuel Valls, held a memorial ceremony for four people killed in a kosher market a year earlier by an attacker claiming ties to the Islamic State group

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